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Quotes from Chris Sacca

I have one of the self-driving Teslas; it drives itself periodically. It's a marvel of science, but it's still frightening. I think we've got a while before regulators and the general public wrap their heads around the path that will lead to the ubiquity of driverless cars. There's no doubt Uber will be a leader in that space.
~ Chris Sacca
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
~ Chris Sacca
Twitter can afford to build the wrong things. However, Twitter cannot afford to build the right things too slowly.
~ Chris Sacca
One rule we have at my house is, be proud of what we invest in.
~ Chris Sacca
There simply isn't a way to do the show without investing in a bunch more companies.
~ Chris Sacca
It is very hip to be an angel investor now. There used to be a dozen, two dozen guys at these demo days writing checks. Now there are hundreds.
~ Chris Sacca
I don't drink coffee. Weird, I know. But I try to stay away from caffeine. That said, we are investors in Blue Bottle, which is delicious!
~ Chris Sacca
There I was - 20 years old, living in Ireland, and I'd never heard the word 'venture capitalist.' But I'd said that I wanted a job that involved a lot of negotiation, a lot of yelling at people on the phone, and for it to be high-risk, high-reward.
~ Chris Sacca
I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.
~ Chris Sacca
In the earlier years of my career, I made my own attempts to fit in and be accepted as one of the tribe of Sand Hill Road guys.
~ Chris Sacca
They are desperate for surrogates to get behind Trump, and they can't find anyone who has actually had genuine success who is willing to stand behind him. That is because he is all smoke and mirrors. We know he doesn't have all the money he claims he has.
~ Chris Sacca
I've definitely sold some Twitter shares. I don't own as many as I used to, because I'm not an idiot, but I own more than I should because I'm an idiot.
~ Chris Sacca
Ride-sharing is one of the biggest math problems that's ever been approached, that's ever been attempted to be solved.
~ Chris Sacca
Just don't spend your money, and you're well on your way to becoming a millionaire.
~ Chris Sacca
When someone comes in with a product they want in Bed Bath & Beyond, that's way out of my comfort zone.
~ Chris Sacca
For most people, tweeting is scary.
~ Chris Sacca
If you follow my tweets, you know, my attention and anxiety have been increasingly focused on the plight of our democracy.
~ Chris Sacca
People get out ahead of themselves in debt with spending on all of their desires. But if you learn to live pretty simply and well, well under your means, you feel incredibly, incredibly rich, and that frees you up and gives you the option to start something new, to leave the job you're not excited about, where there might be a glass ceiling on you.
~ Chris Sacca
Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.
~ Chris Sacca
I wasn't put on the Earth only to be an investor. That wasn't my only thing in life. The problem is that as you get good at something and you keep getting better at something, more and more people just know you as that, and they have you in that box.
~ Chris Sacca
I want broadband to grow, more mobile devices available, particularly in underprivileged communities. I want STEM education to go ahead and fund the next generation of engineers.
~ Chris Sacca
One of my rules for investing is, I don't invest in a deal where I don't think I have an unfair advantage and where I don't think I can personally impact the outcome.
~ Chris Sacca
I think there wouldn't be a Net neutrality debate in this country if we really had a competitive environment for access.
~ Chris Sacca
I think the institutions, principles, norms, and traditions that make the United States of America genuinely exceptional are at serious risk. It has been hard to think about anything else.
~ Chris Sacca